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Pay well, demand well.

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I suspect the working conditions suck.

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Stand by…reminder Pilot are only paid for flight hours thus once the door closes and the plane is moving.

Per a couple of searches a regional pilot can only work a max of 1,000 per year with a typical year being 700 hours of flight time.

Sure this is a decent wage but it is far from the top.

A top pilot earning $161 per hour only flying 700 hours gross pay is $112,700.

This is a good job and I wish I had it but let’s not get carried away thinking these pilots are paid over the top.

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The market place speaks…

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This is PR BS. They will cut the hours worked or change the benefits to make up for the loss in wages. There is no free lunch, unless you are on the Board or in Senior Management.

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Regional pilots will bolt for the majors at the first opportunity regardless of regional pay.

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This is the same solution to the problem that has been at issue for decades. You have to pay reasonable wages to get and keep employees.

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The story of my flying career: When there’s a pilot shortage …I hold what appears to be a fantastic, permanent corporate job. When 3 to 5 years later that job folds…. the airlines are furloughing. When airlines are desperate for pilots…I’ve fallen for the corporate candy again.
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(there’s more than one fork-in-the-road where I took the wrong-one)… LOL

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When I interviewed with regionals in 2005 a new hire F/O made $25k to fly a regional jet. Before Covid, airline bonus structures had first year pay up to 50-60k - not Rockefeller money, but still a big jump from what it was. ALPA is still saying there’s no pilot shortage in spite of American parking 100 aircraft due to crew shortages, and United has opened a flight school in Phoenix to create a pipeline for pilots. Why is there such a disconnect?

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So funny. ALPA has been saying to pay regional pilots more. The market place has demanded it so they come to this agreement, and yet, here everyone is knocking it. I bet the 23 year old right seater making $75K a year first year under this deal likes it a whole lot better than the CPT to his left that made 25K 5 years ago.

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I suspect the general public would be surprised to learn this fact. ~$115k after what, 3 years building 1500 hours and $100k in tuition, plus 6-8 years working your way up at the regionals with low pay and a really tough schedule? Maybe when I was 20 and without kids, not so much now. Respect to you all working the lines at the regionals, it’s a tough job. Happy to see that there’s at least some attention finally being paid to compensation.

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The union answer to every problem is higher pay for our members.